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President Donald Trump's pick for the top job at NASA, Rep. James Bridenstine, faced blistering critique at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, with Democrats questioning his fitness for the role.

The House Republican tax bill gives a detailed look at how House Republicans want to reshape the tax code.

The State Department began revoking the passports of convicted child sex offenders this week, in order to comply with a law passed last year. Those affected will have to apply for new passports, which will be marked to indicate their conviction.

President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist is imperiled over his connections to the ongoing Russia probe, sources tell CNN.

House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNN in an exclusive interview shortly after the release of Republicans' new tax bill that the purpose of the new plan is to help the middle class.

When Foster the People's anti-gun violence anthem, "Pumped Up Kicks," was released in 2010, it quickly went viral. But not everyone immediately noticed the cautionary tale about gun violence that lead singer Mark Foster relates in the lyrics:

The House Repubicans' tax bill, unveiled on Thursday, did not include one of the most controversial ideas that had been floated for weeks.

Donald Trump's nominee to be the chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, Sam Clovis, wrote in a 2011 newsletter that progressives, through the public school system, have been "indoctrinating children" with concepts he said are contrary to America's founding, including environmentalism and racism.

House Republicans have unveiled on Thursday the full text behind their tax legislation. Read the bill below:

President Donald Trump is calling for the death penalty against the man charged with mowing down pedestrians and bikers in New York City, raising the question of whether his rhetoric could imperil prosecutors' efforts in the case.

CNN has learned that North Korea is already working on an advanced version of its existing KN-20 intercontinental ballistic missile that could potentially reach the United States, just six months after it launched its first ICBM, according to a US official.

Everything leading up to the reveal of the tax plan has been the easy part. Now it gets hard.

Former FBI director Comey, who was fired by Trump who demanded his loyalty, has titled his upcoming book "A Higher Loyalty"

At the age of just four years old, children in North Korea bow before giant portraits depicting the three supreme leaders of the Kim dynasty -- a ritualistic display of obedience that embodies Kim Jong Un's strategy to maintain his unquestioned grip on power, a former North Korean diplomat told US lawmakers on Wednesday.

The House Intelligence Committee released on Wednesday a small sample of the ads a Russian troll farm purchased on Facebook during and after the U.S. presidential election.

Justice Clarence Thomas said rookie Justice Neil Gorsuch is "outstanding" and the Supreme Court is a "wonderful place to work" in an interview that aired Wednesday night, though he lamented a certain emptiness at the court without his old friend, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Donald Trump just changed the way Presidents talk about terror attacks.

Foreign ministers whose countries form an anti-jihadist force in the Sahel region of Africa called on Washington to further support their effort Wednesday, as US counterterrorism operations in Africa are under the spotlight following the deadly ambush in Niger which killed four US soldiers.